Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Baltimore reform league doesn't intend to stop work because it didn't carry the elec- ton the other day. Two days after the cleo tion it's attorneys secured the expunging of no less than two hundred and ffty-eight names from the lists, and the cases still to be reviewed run into the thousands.
 The Boston and Maine Railroad company is about to ask the courts to declare the veto of the governor of New Hampshire in the matter of it's bill invalid, CD the ground that the State executive gave no reason for his act as required by the constitution of the State. Plain people think that he gave very good reason for it.
 In Germany the average duration of the life of gardeners, mariners and fishermen is fifty eight years; butchers, ffty-four years; carpenters and bricklayers, forty nine years; shoemakers and tailors, forty four years;c ;com- positors and Photographers, forty-one years, and laborers, thirty-two years. Of ths pro- feasions the average lifetime of clergymen is sixty-seven years; teachers, ffty-seven years; lawyers, ffty-four years, and physicians for ty-nine years.
 The facts relative to the importation of opium into the United States are significant. In 1872 the amount of crude opium brought into the country was 169, 1854 pounds. Twelve years later Q860) the amount was 245, ,211; six years later Q8S0 the amount had nearly doubled and was All, ,276. while this year Q88O so far the aggregate has reached 56S.- 263 pounds. What is done with it all, the druggists and dealers could tell, but the great increase in the fifteen years from 1872 to 1887 marks tremendous difference to be accounted for some way. The amount inn ported this year is nearly 390,000 pounds more than in 1872.
 At the reeent eclipse of the sun the Chi nese authorities, in accordance with the usage of the empire, ordered the Buddhist and Tavist priests to recite their incantations to rescue the sun from being devoured. It was at the time of the festivities over the Emperor's birthday, when all officials were required to wear embroidered robes, but it is also the law that during an eclipse officials who participate in the ceremonies must wear ordinary garments until the sun is rescued. An edict had to be got from the Emperor to settle it. He ordered the officials to ignore his birthday and attend to the sun, so they all wore ordinary robes.
 One salutary act of the British parliament that was recently prorogued was the pas sage of certain amendments to the mining laws which will compel the lighting of coal | mines in the United Kingdom by means of l incandescent electric lights. It is believed that by the introduction of this device many such accidents as have occurred in the past by mine explosions may be prevented in the | future. Incandescent lights that burn in 6 vacuum are instantly extinguished if the glass bulb that surrounds them is fractured so that there is not even time given to ignite the most explosive of gases. It is now pro posed, in view of the recent theater fire iI England, that Parliament shall pass law compelling the managers and owners of these
 establishmets to light them entirely by cleo | trioity.
 The evidence collected by General Morrow
 showing that the rainfall in the far West ii
 increasing is attracting good deal of atten ton. General Morrow is now in eommsni